GOGGLING Synonyms: 34 Similar and Opposite Words

goggling

verb

present participle of goggle

as in staring

to look long and hard in wonder or surprise goggled at the elaborate costumes and floats in the Mardi Gras parade

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The banners of Hightower green burning in the night, Rhaenyra staring ominously through the flames.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026
Now, yes, staring at the ceiling long enough to draw you a diagram of the paint peeling.

— Danielle Parker, CBS News, 30 June 2026

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Instead, the skin-frying Friday saw common flow of people going through, gawking at the large screens and a group of sailors allowing some passing by to do pull-ups from a bar.

— Amethyst Martinez, USA Today, 3 July 2026
The walk to the stadium is a mile or so along the Alaskan Way, where restaurants like the Crab Pot are opening up, but everyone is gawking at the street spectacle.

— Simon Hughes, New York Times, 24 June 2026

Definition of gawking

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Curious passersby stopped throughout the day, gazing up at what used to be the Pfizer headquarters building.

— Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 9 July 2026
All of the most iconic images from the first movie — a young Moana interacting with an ocean that parts to greet her as a friend, the heroine, older and wiser, gazing out onto the horizon wistfully from her docked raft — are meticulously redone.

— Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 8 July 2026

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